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...volcano, could virtually disappear. More likely, the mountain may keep on belching for months or years, slowly smothering the little island. Already it is a paradise lost for its citizens as fewer than 4,000 cling to their homeland. "If everyone leaves," says Radio Montserrat general manager Rose Willock, who lost her home a month ago, "Montserrat will become just another island that...
...Peacock Party (Viking; $7.95), by Alan Aldridge with Harry Willock and George E. Ryder, is the season's most demanding work. The rhymes vary from one-syllable words to items like apogee and collation-an invitation to learning, but also to mystification. The illustrations are something else: portraits of the animal kingdom as seen by the surrealist eye and rendered by the quattrocento hand. Long after the Peacock poetry is memorized or forgotten, the pictures will detonate in the mind, like the bizarre conceits of John Tenniel for the Alice books...
...coffee tables were littered with fashion magazines and paperbacks -Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Truman Capote's Other Voices', Other Rooms, Ruth Willock's The Night Visitor. Another note on a kitchen bulletin board reiterated a standing order: "Attention. Students are not to allow anyone into the townhouse without the house mother being there." An oversize poster on a bedroom wall proclaimed: "Sleep Well Tonight - Your National Guard Is Awake...
Many of the old estates had been taken over by 20th Century squires whose bank balances outran their pedigrees. Alongside such ancient names as Wolley-Dod of Edge, Willock-Pollen of Little Bookham, Polwhele of Polwhele and MacLachlan of MacLachlan, Landed Gentry now lists Martins, Bartons and Fishers. It even mentions 700 people in the U.S., including Cinemactress Joan Fontaine and the International Harvester McCormicks of Chicago...
...possible that the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. are suffering from the same spiritual disease? In the current issue of the year-old Roman Catholic monthly Integrity, Editor Ed Willock writes...